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<blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 8538281" data-attributes="member: 463"><p>Yes, I agree. You can create a variety of different sub-genres by tone depending on how you set the various dials, and default NPC level/competency is definitely one of them, along with eg frequency of spellcasters, ease of magic creation, monster palette & frequency etc. For a typical game I tend to go with 1st level is novice/apprentice, trained N/PCs at 2nd, experienced/competent N/PCs at 3rd/4th level or equivalent, 5th-8th for elites and 9th+ is heroic. 1st level 5e PCs definitely don't feel like veterans to me - and the NPC default stat blocks for 1st level casters tend to be called stuff like 'acolyte' and 'apprentice'.</p><p></p><p>Re variable power level, in my 5e Thule game last week the level 17 PCs fought and dispelled the minor Great Old One Shar-Ngolyeth, who some Deep Ones had been trying to free from his pit of doom. For stats I adapted Kobold Press's demon lord Qorgeth - who in my Faerun Adventures game is presented as a nigh-apocalyptic threat. Challenge 24 in both cases, but that has different implications in the different settings.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="S'mon, post: 8538281, member: 463"] Yes, I agree. You can create a variety of different sub-genres by tone depending on how you set the various dials, and default NPC level/competency is definitely one of them, along with eg frequency of spellcasters, ease of magic creation, monster palette & frequency etc. For a typical game I tend to go with 1st level is novice/apprentice, trained N/PCs at 2nd, experienced/competent N/PCs at 3rd/4th level or equivalent, 5th-8th for elites and 9th+ is heroic. 1st level 5e PCs definitely don't feel like veterans to me - and the NPC default stat blocks for 1st level casters tend to be called stuff like 'acolyte' and 'apprentice'. Re variable power level, in my 5e Thule game last week the level 17 PCs fought and dispelled the minor Great Old One Shar-Ngolyeth, who some Deep Ones had been trying to free from his pit of doom. For stats I adapted Kobold Press's demon lord Qorgeth - who in my Faerun Adventures game is presented as a nigh-apocalyptic threat. Challenge 24 in both cases, but that has different implications in the different settings. [/QUOTE]
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